license vs reason

license

verb
  • To permit (as grammatically correct). 

  • To give permission or freedom to; accept. 

  • To authorize officially. 

  • To acquire authorization to use, usually in exchange for compensation. 

  • To give formal authorization to use. 

noun
  • The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software. 

  • A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit. 

  • Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech). 

  • Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint. 

reason

verb
  • To support with reasons, as a request. 

  • To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss. 

  • To persuade by reasoning or argument. 

  • To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument. 

  • To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational 

  • To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons. 

  • To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue. 

noun
  • That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause. 

  • An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation. 

  • A premise placed after its conclusion. 

  • A motive for an action or a determination. 

  • Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition. 

How often have the words license and reason occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )